Improvement in boiler-feeders



dnited (Scientec @aient demise.

AUGUSTUS R. YOUNG, OF RED WING, MINNESOTA.

Letters Patent No. 108,423, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOILER-FEEDERS.V

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parto( the same.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS It. YoUNG, of lRed lVing, in the county of Goodhue and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and improved Boiler- Feeder; and I do here by declare that the following is a full, clear and exact description of the same, reference being,r had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

The purpose of my invention is to utilize the steam of locomotives, now blown o and wasted,

I will irst describe my invention in connection with all that is necessary to a full understanding thereof, and then clearly point it out in the claim.

The drawing represents a longitudinal, vertical, and sectional view of my improved attachment to a locomotive-boiler.

K is a boiler.

B is a feed-water chamber, connected by pipe N with a reservoir.

0 I is a valved air-pipe.

G I, H I, M F, and L E are valved pipes.

C is a steam-chest, where the waste steam from the locomotive is conveyed through pipe E.

The mode of operation is as follows:

. When thc-locomotive is at a station waiting for the hour of starting, and after she has got up steam to the'desired pressure, (as she is obliged to do,) she blows o at the valve, and thus wastes the steam, and, consequently, the fuel required to produce it.

Y Instead of this-I open the cock L, and gather the superfluous steam into the chest C.

When a snfcient quantity has been obtained, I open the cocks I I, (communicating with the feedwater chamber B,) shutv cock M, and cause the steam and water to have free circulation in bot-h of the chambers. In this manner the steam imparts its heat to the feed-water, and becomes rapidly condensed.

The water is then further heated by the steam conveyed thereto, until the cock M is opened. Then it is allowed to be conveyed to the boiler.

I employ the steam to create a vacuum, to bling the cold water from the reservoir to the feed-waterA chamber B, and also to force the water into the boiler, but, as the-se are old and well-understood expediente, it is unnecessary to explain them in detail.

Having thus described all` that is necessary to afull understanding of my invention,

What I esteem as new,-and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a boiler, K, and feed-water chamber B, of the waste-steam-chamber C, applied to a locomotive, as and for the purpose described.

AUGUSTUS R. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

FREDK. Joss, THos. F. FROME. 

